PacSci Perspectives This week’s pupae shipment from Costa Rica contains 65 Danaus plexippus (The Monarch) butterflies, the star of the IMAX movie “Flight of the Butterflies 3D now showing at Pacific Science Center. This popular film is back to tell the...

PacSci Perspectives Most guests fall in love with Blue Morpho butterflies without realizing that the term refers to a group of butterflies, not a specific species. In fact, the genus Morpho contains over 175 species and subspecies from which we receive four. Morpho...

PacSci Perspectives There are giants among us! And they will soon be flying in our Tropical Butterfly House. In addition to the often seen giant of the butterfly house, the Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas), this week’s shipment will feature another very large...

PacSci Perspectives “Cold and windy weather” does that sound familiar? Our butterfly farmer in El Salvador writes to us that he is experiencing it there, too. For some species, low temperatures (4-8°C) coupled with dry winds create desiccating effects...

PacSci Perspectives In this week’s pupae shipment from Suriname we are featuring the graceful Dryas iulia (Julia Longwing). A Neotropical species, Dryas iulia butterflies are now found breeding in the wild in parts of Thailand and Malaysia. The cause of the species...